Support for older Elasticsearch servers?

[jpage-godaddy]

According to the this compatibility chart, @elastic/elasticsearch@8 which the recent mocha-elk-reporter release uses is only compatible with Elasticsearch servers on version 8. Sadly, our company has a dependency on a version 7 server.

Supposedly older @elastic/elasticsearch packages are forward-compatible with newer servers, so in theory if we used an older elasticsearch library it would enable us to support older servers. Any thoughts on whether we should downgrade that package?

We could also technically support multiple versions simulaneously by installing multiple client library versions, but that of course would have the downside of bloating an install.

[mpahuja]

Downgrading to an older version seems to be right balance to give us best of both worlds. Should we try publishing a beta version with that version pinned and see if that works?

[mpahuja]

just published this version with that change: mocha-elk-reporter@3.0.0-beta1 @jpage-godaddy try it out. PR is also up with the change